Egypt

THE ELECTION IS OVER, and the ancient land of egypt has a new government, at long last, a government elected by democratic processes, presumably. the media is making something out of this, talking about it, pointing out that for the first time in history democracy has come to egypt;

but we're not making nearly enough of it. egypt is one of the most ancient countries on earth. egypt was ancient when julius caesar ruled rome. the kingdom of the pharoahs basked comfortably in governance by god, imprinting tyranny upon the psyche of the land for millenia.

the land of the pharoahs has never before known popularly chosen government, and now it has. this is big news.

ancient greece invented democracy, ancient greece came and went, europe evolved and emerged, america reinvented democracy, while egypt basked in the glow of the gods. now, this ancient culture has joined the modern world.

the people who made it all happen, by creating the arab spring and overthrowing the dictator mubarak, are nowhere in sight. they are not included in the new elected government; that honor goes to islamicists who promise that all egypt will be represented in the new era; we'll wait and see.

the idealistic intellectual mob which brought down mubarak was never an organized political party; the organized political parties waited in the wings, and came out then the time was ripe for power grabbing. it seems the egyptians already know how the democracy game is played.

they'll soon find out, if they haven't already, that democracy is, messy, cumbersome, and chaotic,
and the time may come when the egyptians look with longing back on a time when god came to earth, and made everything comfortable, century after century...until then, let them bask anew in the glow of their new toy, and let the rest of us bask with them..

Bb

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